The Modern Language Quarterly
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| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 1904 |
| Genre | : Languages, Modern |
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Desire and Domestic Fiction
| Author | : Nancy Armstrong |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 1990-02-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0199879036 |
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Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on texts that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract theory to modern psychoanalytic case histories and theories of reading, Armstrong shows that the emergence of a particular form of female subjectivity capable of reigning over the household paved the way for the establishment of institutions which today are accepted centers of political power. Neither passive subjects nor embattled rebels, the middle-class women who were authors and subjects of the major tradition of British fiction were among the forgers of a new form of power that worked in, and through, their writing to replace prevailing notions of "identity" with a gender-determined subjectivity. Examining the works of such novelists as Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, and the Brontës, she reveals the ways in which these authors rewrite the domestic practices and sexual relations of the past to create the historical context through which modern institutional power would seem not only natural but also humane, and therefore to be desired.
Violent Minds
| Author | : Matthew Levay |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 251 |
| Release | : 2019-01-03 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 110842886X |
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Levay analyzes representations of the criminal in British and American modernism from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s.
Everything and Less
| Author | : Mark McGurl |
| Publisher | : Verso Books |
| Total Pages | : 337 |
| Release | : 2021-10-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 183976385X |
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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Best Book of Fall (Esquire) and a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 (Lit Hub) What Has Happened to Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism? Since it was first launched in 1994, Amazon has changed the world of literature. The “Everything Store” has not just transformed how we buy books; it has affected what we buy, and even what we read. In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl explores this new world where writing is no longer categorized as high or lowbrow, literature or popular fiction. Charting a course spanning from Henry James to E. L. James, McGurl shows that contemporary writing has less to do with writing per se than with the manner of its distribution. This consumerist logic—if you like this, you might also like ...—has reorganized the fiction universe so that literary prize-winners sit alongside fantasy, romance, fan fiction, and the infinite list of hybrid genres and self-published works. This is an innovation to be cautiously celebrated. Amazon’s platform is not just a retail juggernaut but an aesthetic experiment driven by an unseen algorithm rivaling in the depths of its effects any major cultural shift in history. Here all fiction is genre fiction, and the niches range from the categories of crime and science fiction to the more refined interests of Adult Baby Diaper Lover erotica. Everything and Less is a hilarious and insightful map of both the commanding heights and sordid depths of fiction, past and present, that opens up an arresting conversation about why it is we read and write fiction in the first place.
Inventions of Nemesis
| Author | : Douglas Mao |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2020-11-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0691211647 |
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A wide-ranging reevaluation of utopian literature and philosophy, from Plato to Chang-Rae Lee Examining literary and philosophical writing about ideal societies from Greek antiquity to the present, Inventions of Nemesis offers a striking new take on utopia’s fundamental project. Noting that utopian imagining has often been propelled by an angry conviction that society is badly arranged, Douglas Mao argues that utopia’s essential aim has not been to secure happiness, order, or material goods, but rather to establish a condition of justice in which all have what they ought to have. He also makes the case that hostility to utopias has frequently been associated with a fear that they will transform humanity beyond recognition, doing away with the very subjects who should receive justice in a transformed world. Further, he shows how utopian writing speaks to contemporary debates about immigration, labor, and other global justice issues. Along the way, Inventions of Nemesis connects utopia to the Greek concept of nemesis, or indignation at a wrong ordering of things, and advances fresh readings of dozens of writers and thinkers—from Plato, Thomas More, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edward Bellamy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and H. G. Wells to John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Fredric Jameson, Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, and Chang-Rae Lee. Ambitious and timely, Inventions of Nemesis offers a vital reconsideration of what it really means to imagine an ideal society.
When Novels Were Books
| Author | : Jordan Alexander Stein |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0674987047 |
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The novel was born religious, alongside Protestant texts produced in the same format by the same publishers. Novels borrowed features of these texts but over the years distinguished themselves, becoming the genre we know today. Jordan Alexander Stein traces this history, showing how the physical object of the book shaped the stories it contained.
Out of Context
| Author | : Michaela Bronstein |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0190655399 |
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Introduction: Works for other times -- Rescue work: innovation and continuity in modernist fiction -- Character and identity -- What chronology demands of us -- Needing to narrate -- Modernism today, or, The author becomes a character
Reading for Form
| Author | : Susan J. Wolfson |
| Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2016-01-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 029580548X |
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Reflecting varieties of theory and practice in both verse and prose from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, these essays by many of America's leading literary scholars call for a reinvigorated formalism that can enrich literary studies, open productive routes of commerce with cultural studies, and propel cultural theory out of its thematic ruts. This book reprints Modern Language Quarterly's highly acclaimed special issue Reading for Form, along with new essays by Marjorie Perloff, D. Vance Smith, and Susan Stewart, and a revised introduction by Susan Wolfson. With historical case studies and insightful explorations, Reading for Form offers invaluable material for literary critics in all specializations.
The Modern Language Quarterly
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 1901 |
| Genre | : Languages, Modern |
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Odysseys of Recognition
| Author | : Ellwood Wiggins |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2019-02-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1684480396 |
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Literary recognition is a technical term for a climactic plot device. Odysseys of Recognition claims that interpersonal recognition is constituted by performance, and brings performance theory into dialogue with poetics, politics, and philosophy. By observing Odysseus figures from Homer to Kleist, Ellwood Wiggins offers an alternative to conventional intellectual histories that situate the invention of the interior self in modernity. Through strategic readings of Aristotle, this elegantly written, innovative study recovers an understanding of interpersonal recognition that has become strange and counterintuitive. Penelope in Homer’s Odyssey offers a model for agency in ethical knowledge that has a lot to teach us today. Early modern and eighteenth-century characters, meanwhile, discover themselves not deep within an impenetrable self, but in the interpersonal space between people in the world. Recognition, Wiggins contends, is the moment in which epistemology and ethics coincide: in which what we know becomes manifest in what we do. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
